BASIC COMPUTING PERIOD A
T/F:
Napier’s Bones was invented by Kirk Napier in 1614.
-It was john Napier
Which material was used by the Chinese to make paper during the Premechanical Age?
Rags
T/F:
A Slide Rule was limited to addition and Subtraction.
FALSE
It was Pascaline
The difference engine was developed by:
CHARLES BABBAGE
T/F:
The Jacquard loom is a mechanical loom, invented by Joseph-Marie Jacquard
TRUE
The first reliable, useful and commercially successful calculating machine
Arithmometer
Around 100 A.D., the first numeration system using digits 1-9 was created by people from:
Answer: India
It is the first mechanical computer.
Difference Engine and Analytical Engine
The earliest known alphabet that influenced modern writing systems was developed by the:
Answer: Phoenicians
The machine that can add, subtract, multiply and divide automatically.
Stepped Reckoner
She is the first Computer programmer.
Augusta Ada Byron
The Fifth Generation of computers is primarily based on:
AI
The first electro-mechanical computer. Invented by Howard H. Aiken in 1943
Harvard Mark 1
The telegraph was created during which age?
Electromechanical Age
It was the first electronic general-purpose computer.
ENIAC
What does UNIVAC 1 stand for?
UNIVersal Automatic Computer 1
The period between 1450 and 1840, marked by inventions like the slide rule, Pascaline, and Babbage's difference engine, representing the beginning of mechanical computing devices.
Which of the following devices was used as an ancient memory aid to record numbers and messages?
Tally Stick
The period from 1940 to present, characterized by the use of vacuum tubes, transistors, integrated circuits, and the development of modern computers, including personal computers and GUIs.
Electronic Age
The Scheutzian Calculation Engine was based on which earlier machine?
The Difference Engine
ENIAC was developed by_______ and ________.
John Presper Eckert and John Mauchly.
Which technology marked the beginning of the Fourth Generation of computers?
Integrated circuits
a computer designed by Von Neumann in 1952.
What is the time period covered by the Premechanical Age?
3000 B.C. - 1450 A.D.
• It was the first electronic digital computing device.
Atanasoff-Berry Computer